And when I came on the scene in 19 -- the 1980s as a forester, we were into industrial, large-scale clear-cutting in western Canada. It's yours." And I do that in my brain. ], [LARRY UBELL: Radiolab was created by Jad Abumrad and is produced by Soren Wheeler. And then Monica would Just about, you know, seven or eight inches. So the -- this branching pot thing. Is it ROBERT: This is like metaphor is letting in the light as opposed to shutting down the blinds. Just the sound of it? ROBERT: They would salivate and then eat the meat. Yeah. And again. But the Ubells have noticed that even if a tree is 10 or 20, 30 yards away from the water pipe, for some reason the tree roots creep with uncanny regularity straight toward the water pipe. SUZANNE SIMARD: Not a basset hound, but he was a beagle. So we are going to meet a beautiful little plant called a mimosa pudica, which is a perfectly symmetrical plant with leaves on either side of a central stem. And again. But it didn't happen. let's do it! They're one of our closest relatives, actually. So that voice belongs to Aatish Bhatia, who is with Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. And lignin is full of nitrogen, but also compounds like nitrogen is important in DNA, right? Like, two percent or 0.00000001 percent? So we are going to meet a beautiful little plant called a mimosa pudica, which is a perfectly symmetrical plant with leaves on either side of a central stem. Peering down at the plants under the red glow of her headlamp. It seems like a no-brainer to me (pardon the unintentional pun) that they would have some very different ways of doing things similar to what animals do. ROBERT: Five, four, three, two, one, drop! And now, if you fast-forward roughly 30 years, she then makes a discovery that I find kind of amazing. We've all seen houseplants do that, right? And Jigs at some point just runs off into the woods, just maybe to chase a rabbit. And I met a plant biologist who's gonna lead that parade. Would they stay in the tree, or would they go down to the roots? And these acids come out and they start to dissolve the rocks. They don't do well in warm temperatures and their needles turn all sickly yellow. Super interesting how alive our plants really are! ROBERT: You don't know what your dog was? I mean the fungus is JENNIFER FRAZER: No, no, no. Radiolab Smarty Plants. So we've done experiments, and other people in different labs around the world, they've been able to figure out that if a tree's injured ROBERT: It'll cry out in a kind of chemical way. JAD: So today we have a triptych of experiments about plants. Wait. So I don't have a problem. It's a family business. JAD: That apparently -- jury's still out. ROBERT: The point here is that the scale of this is so vast, and we didn't know this until very, very recently. ROBERT: Is your dog objecting to my analysis? It's about how plants learn, or adapt, or even listen, the way humans do (though scientists really don't seem to know how). So she takes the plants, she puts them into the parachute drop, she drops them. Me first. ROBERT: Monica's work has actually gotten quite a bit of attention from other plant biologists. All right, my hypothesis is that what happens is You got somewhere to go? And then what happens? ROBERT: But that scientist I mentioned MONICA GAGLIANO: My name is Monica Gagliano. SUZANNE SIMARD: No, so for example, lignin is important for making a tree stand up straight. Jad and Robert, they are split on this one. So actually, I think you were very successful with your experiment. That was my reaction. And what we found was that the trees that were the biggest and the oldest were the most highly connected. How does it know which way to turn and grow its roots so that it can find the water? ROBERT: And they're digging and digging and digging. ROBERT: She took that notion out of the garden into her laboratory. The problem is is with plants. It's almost as if these plants -- it's almost as if they know where our pipes are. ROBERT: What's its job? Had indeed turned and moved toward the fan, stretching up their little leaves as if they were sure that at any moment now light would arrive. Yours is back of your house, but let's make it in the front. I don't know if you're a bank or if you're an -- so it's not necessarily saying, "Give it to the new guy." Landing very comfortably onto a padded base made of foam. She's done three experiments, and I think if I tell you about what she has done, you -- even you -- will be provoked into thinking that plants can do stuff you didn't imagine, dream they could do. They designed from scratch a towering parachute drop in blue translucent Lego pieces. On one side, instead of the pipe with water, she attaches an MP3 player with a little speaker playing a recording of And then on the other side, Monica has another MP3 player with a speaker. ROBERT: And she says she began to notice things that, you know, one wouldn't really expect. Remember that the roots of these plants can either go one direction towards the sound of water in a pipe, or the other direction to the sound of silence. ], With help from Alexandra Leigh Young, Jackson Roach and Charu Sinha. ROBERT: That there was a kind of a moral objection to thinking this way. And it's that little, little bit of moisture that the plant will somehow sense. Both aiming at the pea plant from the same direction, and the pea plant leans toward them. It's time -- time for us to go and lie down on the soft forest floor. And when you measure them, like one study we saw found up to seven miles of this little threading What is this thing? So its resources, its legacy will move into the mycorrhizal network into neighboring trees. JENNIFER FRAZER: Well, maybe. They learned something. But what -- how would a plant hear something? But it was originally done with -- with a dog. JENNIFER FRAZER: It's definitely crazy. ALVIN UBELL: And I've been in the construction industry ever since I'm about 16 years old. Tagged #science #technology #philosophy #education #radiolab. It didn't seem to be learning anything. It's kind of like a cold glass sitting on your desk, and there's always a puddle at the bottom. It was magic for me. So I think what she would argue is that we kind of proved her point. MONICA GAGLIANO: My reaction was, "Oh ****!" Like, two percent or 0.00000001 percent? ROBERT: And that's where the fungus comes in. We had a Geiger counter out there. Listen to one of these podcasts: (Read the summaries and choose the one you want) Radiolab - Update: CRISPR Radiolab - Cellmates Radiolab - Shrink Radiolab - From Tree to Shining Tree Radiolab - Antibodies Part 1: CRISPR Radiolab - Galapagos Radiolab - Smarty Plants Radiolab - Super Cool For the main post please include: Title ROBERT: But that day with the roots is the day that she began thinking about the forest that exists underneath the forest. Well, maybe. I guess you could call it a mimosa plant drop box. Into the roots, and then into the microbial community, which includes the mushroom team, yeah. Or even learn? It's the equivalent of a human being jumping over the Eiffel Tower. ROBERT: These sensitive hairs he argues, would probably be able to feel that tiny difference. Start of message. You got somewhere to go? I thought okay, so this is just stupid. And to me, here are three more reasons that you can say, "No, really! So the fungus is giving the tree the minerals. So the plants are now, you know, buckled in, minding their own business. She determined that you can pick a little computer fan and blow it on a pea plant for pretty much ever and the pea plant would be utterly indifferent to the whole thing. And there was a lot of skepticism at the time. Pretty much like the concept of Pavlov with his dog applied. He was a, not a wiener dog. I mean, I think there's something to that. So after much trial and error with click and hums and buzzes She found that the one stimulus that would be perfect was A little fan. They definitely don't have a brain. ROBERT: Little white threads attached to the roots. ROBERT: Salmon consumption. So what they're saying is even if she's totally sealed the pipe so there's no leak at all, the difference in temperature will create some condensation on the outside. Like, how can a plant -- how does a plant do that? MONICA GAGLIANO: Picasso, enough of that now. I don't know if that was the case for your plants. Little white threads attached to the roots. Her use of metaphor. I guess you could call it a mimosa plant drop box. But instead of dogs, she had pea plants in a dark room. Fan, light, lean. ROBERT: But it has, like, an expandable ROBERT: Oh, it's an -- oh, listen to that! That's the place where I remember things. Oh, yeah. Like, I don't understand -- learning, as far as I understand it, is something that involves memory and storage. "I'm in the neighborhood. And therefore she might, in the end, see something that no one else would see. ROBERT: So I think what she would argue is that we kind of proved her point. But maybe it makes her sort of more open-minded than -- than someone who's just looking at a notebook. The fungi, you know, after it's rained and snowed and the carcass has seeped down into the soil a bit, the fungi then go and they drink the salmon carcass down and then send it off to the tree. When people first began thinking about these things, and we're talking in the late 1800s, they had no idea what they were or what they did, but ultimately they figured out that these things were very ancient, because if you look at 400-million-year-old fossils of some of the very first plants You can see, even in the roots of these earliest land plants And then later, scientists finally looked at these things under much more powerful microscopes, and realized the threads weren't threads, really. You got the plant to associate the fan with food. She took some plants, put them in a pot that restricted the roots so they could only go in one of just two directions, toward the water pipe or away from the water pipe. The plants would always grow towards the light. Or at the time actually, she was a very little girl who loved the outdoors. We dropped. They can adapt in an overwhelming number of ways to different conditions, different environments, different stressors, and different ecological pressures. ROBERT: But once again I kind of wondered if -- since the plant doesn't have a brain or even neurons to connect the idea of light and wind or whatever, where would they put that information? JENNIFER FRAZER: If you look at these particles under the microscope, you can see the little tunnels. They're not experiencing extra changes, for example. ROBERT: So she takes the plants, she puts them into the parachute drop, she drops them. Well, I have one thing just out of curiosity ROBERT: As we were winding up with our home inspectors, Alvin and Larry Ubell, we thought maybe we should run this metaphor idea by them. I mean, to say that a plant is choosing a direction, I don't know. Today, Robert drags Jad along on a parade for the surprising feats of brainless plants. You have a forest, you have mushrooms. JAD: No, I actually, like even this morning it's already like poof! I know -- I know you -- I know you don't. So we know that Douglas fir will take -- a dying Douglas fir will send carbon to a neighboring Ponderosa pine. MONICA GAGLIANO: Pretty much like the concept of Pavlov with his dog applied. I was like, "Oh, my God! ROBERT: They shade each other. Like, the tree was, like, already doing that stuff by itself, but it's the fungus that's doing that stuff? And the salivation equivalent was the tilt of the plant? But what I do know is that the fact that the plant doesn't have a brain doesn't -- doesn't a priori say that the plants can't do something. LARRY UBELL: We are the principals of Accurate Building Inspectors of Brooklyn, New York. That something bad is happening. And if you just touch it Where all the leaves close in, like do do do do do do. So she decided to conduct her experiment. They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. JENNIFER FRAZER: Minerals from the soil. LINCOLN TAIZ: I think you can be open-minded but still objective. Oh, so this is, like, crucial. This peculiar plant has a -- has a surprising little skill. ROBERT: What happened to you didn't happen to us. He was a -- what was he? Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of Science and Technology in the modern world. I know. Our store also offers Grooming, Training, Adoptions, Veterinary and Curbside Pickup. MONICA GAGLIANO: I created these horrible contraptions. ROBERT: And you can actually see this happen. And again. We're carefully examining the roots of this oak tree. Nothing delicious at all.". And I met a plant biologist who's gonna lead that parade. Pics! They have to -- have to edit in this together. To remember? ROBERT: Oh, hunting for water. And after not a whole lot of drops the plant, she noticed, stopped closing its leaves. ROBERT: Then she placed the fan right next to the light so that MONICA GAGLIANO: The light and the fan were always coming from the same direction. But ROBERT: We did catch up with her a few weeks later. -- they spring way up high in the air. What the team found is the food ends up very often with trees that are new in the forest and better at surviving global warming. Yes, we are related. SUZANNE SIMARD: Where we've all been, you know, doing our daily business. They're not experiencing extra changes, for example. And it was almost like, let's see how much I have to stretch it here before you forget. Is it, like -- is it a plant? ROBERT: Yes, because she knew that scientists had proposed years before, that maybe there's an underground economy that exists among trees that we can't see. Pics! SUZANNE SIMARD: Into the roots, and then into the microbial community, which includes the mushroom team, yeah. ROBERT: Connecting your house to the main city water line that's in the middle of the street. ROBERT: But that scientist I mentioned MONICA GAGLIANO: My name is Monica Gagliano. ROBERT: Is your dog objecting to my analysis? No, I don't because she may come up against it, people who think that intelligence is unique to humans. Each one an ounce, an ounce, an ounce, an ounce, an ounce. Smarty Plants. LINCOLN TAIZ: I think you can be open-minded but still objective. Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? ROBERT: So I think what she would argue is that we kind of proved her point. But the Ubells have noticed that even if a tree is 10 or 20, 30 yards away from the water pipe, for some reason the tree roots creep with uncanny regularity straight toward the water pipe. So the fungus is giving the tree the minerals. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org.]. Actually, Monica's dog leads perfectly into her third experiment, which again will be with a plant. ], [ROY HALLING: Matt Kielty, Robert Krulwich, Annie McEwen, Andy Mills, Latif Nasser, Malissa O'Donnell. Yes, because she knew that scientists had proposed years before, that maybe there's an underground economy that exists among trees that we can't see. WHRO is Hampton Roads' local NPR / PBS Station. I remember going in at the uni on a Sunday afternoon. The tree has a lot of sugar. ROBERT: Jennifer says that what the tubes do is they worm their way back and forth through the soil until they bump into some pebbles. So that's where these -- the scientists from Princeton come in: Peter, Sharon and Aatish. So they didn't. Connecting your house to the main city water line that's in the middle of the street. And I'm wondering whether Monica is gonna run into, as she tries to make plants more animal-like, whether she's just gonna run into this malice from the scientific -- I'm just wondering, do you share any of that? I mean, I -- it's a kind of Romanticism, I think. And does it change my place in the world? So they figured out who paid for the murder. JAD: Where would the -- a little plant even store a memory? I don't know yet. She thinks that they somehow remembered all those drops and it never hurt, so they didn't fold up any more. Or maybe it's the fungus under the ground is kind of like a broker and decides who gets what. And after not a whole lot of drops the plant, she noticed, stopped closing its leaves. Like, can a tree stand up straight without minerals? The roots of this tree of course can go any way they want to go. JAD: Would you say that the plant is seeing the sun? They're one of our closest relatives, actually. PETER LANDGREN: Little seatbelt for him for the ride down. But it didn't happen. ROBERT: Eventually, she came back after ROBERT: And they still remembered. It's okay. There was a healthier community when they were mixed and I wanted to figure out why. In this story, a dog introduces us to a strange creature that burrows . JAD: This -- this actually happened to me. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah. JAD: Are you bringing the plant parade again? And she wondered whether that was true. Very similar to the sorts of vitamins and minerals that humans need. Well, maybe. ROBERT: She says we now know that trees give each other loans. OUR PODCASTSSUPPORT US Smarty Plants LISTEN Download February 13, 2018 ( Robert Krulwich Jennifer told Latif and I about another role that these fungi play. They're switched on. I thought -- I thought tree roots just sort of did -- like, I thought -- I always imagined tree roots were kind of like straws. But when we look at the below ground structure, it looks so much like a brain physically, and now that we're starting to understand how it works, we're going, wow, there's so many parallels. I know -- I know you -- I know you don't. There's this whole other world right beneath my feet. April 8, 2018 By thelandconnection. Is that what -- is that what this? And it's more expensive. But I wonder if her using these metaphors is perhaps a very creative way of looking at -- looking at a plant, and therefore leads her to make -- make up these experiments that those who wouldn't think the way she would would ever make up. Jigs had provided this incredible window for me, you know, in this digging escapade to see how many different colors they were, how many different shapes there were, that they were so intertwined. He was a -- what was he? I've been looking around lately, and I know that intelligence is not unique to humans. So I'd seal the plant, the tree in a plastic bag, and then I would inject gas, so tagged with a -- with an isotope, which is radioactive. SUZANNE SIMARD: Yeah, he was a curious dog. Never mind.". And remember, if you're a springtail, don't talk to strange mushrooms. But white, translucent and hairy, sort of. So there's these little insects that lives in the soil, these just adorable little creatures called springtails. JAD: And is it as dramatic in the opposite direction? If a plant doesn't have a brain what is choosing where to go? One time, the plant literally flew out of the pot and upended with roots exposed. And so now we're down there. You found exactly what the plants would do under your circumstances which were, I don't know, let's say a bit more tumultuous than mine. Listen to Radiolab: "Smarty Plants" on Pandora - Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? You know, one of those little jeweler's glasses? Now the plants if they were truly dumb, they'd go 50/50. 46 7. ROBERT: Isn't that what you do? 0:00. That's what she says. So maybe the root hairs, which are always found right at the growing tips of plant roots, maybe plant roots are like little ears. So its resources, its legacy will move into the mycorrhizal network into neighboring trees. Annie McWen or McEwen ], Latif Nasser, Malissa O'Donnell, Arianne Wack ], With help from Amanda Aronczyk, Shima Oliaee ], Niles Hughes, Jake Arlow, Nigar Fatali ], And lastly, a friendly reminder. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org]. And if you go to too many rock concerts, you can break these hairs and that leads to permanent hearing loss, which is bad. LARRY UBELL: You got somewhere to go? Science writer Jen Frazer gave us kind of the standard story. ROBERT: That is correct. Salmon consumption. They're all out in the forest. Couple minutes go by SUZANNE SIMARD: And all of a sudden we could hear this barking and yelping. He's the only springtail with a trench coat and a fedora. JAD: And the plant still went to the place where the pipe was not even in the dirt? In this case, a little blue LED light. So they just went right for the MP3 fake water, not even the actual water? She actually trained this story in a rather elaborate experimental setup to move away from the light and toward a light breeze against all of its instincts. Anyone who's ever had a plant in a window knows that. And what a tree needs are minerals. Seasonally. My reaction was like, "Oh ****!" ROBERT: So maybe could you just describe it just briefly just what you did? And the pea plant leans toward them. The bell, the meat and the salivation. And the pea plants are left alone to sit in this quiet, dark room feeling the breeze. But what I do know is that the fact that the plant doesn't have a brain doesn't -- doesn't a priori says that the plants can't do something. ROBERT: So light is -- if you shine light on a plant you're, like, feeding it? They still did not close when she dropped them. Fan, light, lean. Or maybe slower? He's got lots of questions about her research methods, but really his major complaint is -- is her language. [laughs] You mean, like the World Wide Web? Jun 3, 2019 - In our Animal Minds episode, we met a group of divers who rescued a humpback whale, then shared a really incredible moment.a moment in which the divers are convinced that the whale . How much longer? And if you don't have one, by default you can't do much in general. And it's that little, little bit of moisture that the plant will somehow sense. So these trees were basically covered with bags that were then filled with radioactive gas. [ENRIQUE: This is Enrique Romero from the bordertown of Laredo, Texas. Is your dog objecting to my analysis? And for a long time, they were thought of as plants. And so I don't have a problem with that. The water is still in there. I have even -- I can go better than even that. Every one of them. Just a boring set of twigs. And so we're digging away, and Jigs was, you know, looking up with his paws, you know, and looking at us, waiting. ROBERT: Huh. Or even learn? And of course we had to get Jigs out. ROBERT: The Ubells see this happening all the time. SUZANNE SIMARD: And so I designed this experiment to figure that out. I mean, what? I mean, Jigs was part of the family. There's -- on the science side, there's a real suspicion of anything that's anthropomorphizing a plant. Well, it depends on who you ask. That is definitely cool. This is like metaphor is letting in the light as opposed to shutting down the blinds. SUZANNE SIMARD: Yeah. They shade each other out. In 1997, a couple of scientists wrote a paper which describes how fungi Jennifer says that what the tubes do is they worm their way back and forth through the soil until they bump into some pebbles. I purposely removed the chance for a moisture gradient. They still remembered. Is that what -- is that what this? The same one that are used in computers like, you know, really tiny. All right. ROBERT: And we dropped it once and twice. Actually that's good advice for anyone. Monica says what she does do is move around the world with a general feeling of What if? ROBERT: Truth is, I think on this point she's got a -- she's right. This way there is often more questions than answers, but that's part of the fun as well. JAD: It's like every time I close my eyes, you're coming at it from a different direction. What happened to you didn't happen to us. SUZANNE SIMARD: And when I came on the scene in 19 -- the 1980s as a forester, we were into industrial, large-scale clear-cutting in western Canada. ROBERT: And she goes into that darkened room with all the pea plants. I've always loved Radiolab. I'm sorry? Truth is, I think on this point she's got a -- she's right. And so we are under the impression or I would say the conviction that the brain is the center of the universe, and -- and if you have a brain and a nervous system you are good and you can do amazing stuff. Because after dropping them 60 times, she then shook them left to right and they instantly folded up again. So now, they had the radioactive particles inside their trunks and their branches. It was a simple little experiment. And so we, you know, we've identified these as kind of like hubs in the network. The next one goes, "Uh-oh." And it's more expensive. He's the only springtail with a trench coat and a fedora. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, tested it in my lab. Apparently she built some sort of apparatus. JENNIFER FRAZER: Yeah. This is Ashley Harding from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. ANNIE MCEWEN: What was your reaction when you saw this happen? [ASHLEY: Hi. That's a parade I'll show up for. MONICA GAGLIANO: Landing very comfortably onto a padded base made of foam. And then I would cover them in plastic bags. You found exactly what the plants would do under your circumstances which were, I don't know, let's say a bit more tumultuous than mine. And then those little tubes will wrap themselves into place. ROBERT: It turns that carbon into sugar, which it uses to make its trunk and its branches, anything thick you see on a tree is just basically air made into stuff. So they might remember even for a much longer time than 28 days. No, Summer is a real person and her last name happens to be spelled R-A-Y-N-E. AATISH BHATIA: This feels one of those experiments where you just abort it on humanitarian grounds, you know? Just a boring set of twigs. It's a -- it's a three-pronged answer. Liquid rocks. Thanks to Jennifer Frazer who helped us make sense of all this. It's almost as if the forest is acting as an organism itself. JAD: It was curling each time when it ROBERT: Every time. Can the tree feel you ripping the roots out like that? Like, as in the fish. It's almost as if the forest is acting as an organism itself. It just kept curling. ROBERT: She determined that you can pick a little computer fan and blow it on a pea plant for pretty much ever and the pea plant would be utterly indifferent to the whole thing. If you look at a root under a microscope, what you see is all these thousands of feelers like hairs on your head looking for water. Never mind. Could a plant learn to associate something totally random like a bell with something it wanted, like food? ROBERT: What kind of minerals does a tree need? In a tangling of spaghetti-like, almost a -- and each one of those lines of spaghetti is squeezing a little bit. And it begins to look a lot like an airline flight map, but even more dense. 28. Because the only reason why the experiment turned out to be 28 days is because I ran out of time. LARRY UBELL: That -- that would be an interesting ALVIN UBELL: Don't interrupt. I've been looking around lately, and I know that intelligence is not unique to humans. Or maybe it's the fungus under the ground is kind of like a broker and decides who gets what. The fungus has this incredible network of tubes that it's able to send out through the soil, and draw up water and mineral nutrients that the tree needs. Now the plants if they were truly dumb they'd go 50/50. It should have some. Smarty Plants--My Latest Guest Spot for Radiolab - Scientific American Blog Network COVID Health Mind & Brain Environment Technology Space & Physics Video Podcasts Opinion Store Knowledge within. As soon as we labeled them, we used the Geiger counter to -- and ran it up and down the trees, and we could tell that they were hot, they were boo boo boo boo boo, right? 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